Dear subscribers: 
 
Last week our annual fund drive began. As you know, one of the main purposes 
of the LINGUIST List is to disseminate information to the linguistic community. 
We do this for free: all of the information we post on our site is available to 
anyone who cares to see it. 
 
Frankly, this takes a lot of money: though the linguistic faculty who serve 
LINGUIST work for free, the students who do most of the work need to be paid, 
since that's how they support their studies. 
 
But what perhaps most of you don't know is that there is much more going on at 
LINGUIST than you may realize. LINGUIST is not just an information source: 
it has actively been doing research in defining the standards that good linguistic 
work on the Internet needs to follow, and running projects that are adding to 
linguistic infrastructure and information on the web. These projects had been 
funded by the National Science Foundation, so the work that developed them was 
provided for. But the NSF does not provide for the maintenance of what these 
projects produced, and this maintenance has now fallen squarely on the LINGUIST 
List, as the organization that did the work. It would be a tragedy if all this 
material disappeared because the cost of keeping it available was prohibitive. 
 
But if we're to maintain these projects, we have no choice but to ask for your 
help, in the form of donations to LINGUIST. It may help to know a little about 
the things we did. Here's a list of some of them. 
 
The E-MELD project (http://emeld.org): This project is ending this year. It was 
designed to work towards defining standards for linguistic data on the Internet, 
and in particular to encourage through such work the preservation of endangered 
languages data. One of its major products was the School of Best Practice 
(http://emeld.org/school/), which is designed to provide an easy source of information 
on data standards and on how to preserve linguistic data in a digital world. It 
includes detailed explanations of how different kinds of data were digitized. It 
also includes Ask-an-Expert, which is a service through which linguists can ask 
those who have the right kind of expertise to answer technical problems related 
to data conversion and preservation, and virtual meeting places for speakers of 
endangered languages to congregate. E-MELD also produced the first linguistic 
ontologies – both morphosyntactic and phonetic – to be created, 
as well as tools designed to aid field linguists in their work. 
 
The DATA project (http://qenaga.org/): This project also ends this year. 
Its purpose was to digitize the Dena'ina data that the Alaska Native 
Language Center had in its archives and make it available to the Dena'ina 
community and linguists in an annotated form. It also served to train students 
in how to do field work and how to archive linguistic material. 
 
The ALL Language Project (http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/): This was a 
project the purpose of which was to collect as complete a database as possible of 
linguists, along with their specializations and the languages upon which they work. 
 
The Multilist Project (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives): This was a 
project to collect in one place archives of as many linguistic lists as possible, 
and to offer free hosting to any group of linguists that needs access to mailing 
list software. We now archive well over a 100 linguistic lists on our site. 
 
You can see that maintaining such a wealth of material can be quite labor-intensive. 
We need to make sure that the work these past projects of ours produced stays 
available, and is updated, so that it stays useful and relevant. 
 
We can only do this if you donate to LINGUIST, for it's your donations that provide 
the support that makes such maintenance possible. You can do this easily at the URL: 
 
http://www.linguistlist.org/donation/ 
 
Your support will be greatly appreciated! 
 
We would love to do more such projects, and we already have two or three in the works. 
One is a publicly accessible database of all known language relationships, with a full 
bibliographical database. And another is a geographical database of linguistic data, 
capable of generating maps containing many different layers of information. 
 
But you'll be hearing more of these in future years if you make sure that LINGUIST 
goes from strength to strength. Meanwhile, we just need to make sure that we do not 
throw away what we already have! 
 
Sincerely, 
Anthony 

Dear LINGUIST LIST subscribers, 
 
Five years after getting my BA in Linguistics from the University of Dubna in Russia, 
I decided to go for an MA in Linguistics. After considering different schools, I 
decided the program at EMU best suited my needs. However, without any means to finance 
my education, the MA was still out of reach. When I first visited EMU, I learnt about 
the Linguist List. I corresponded with Helen who offered me a Graduate Assistantship 
at the LL. Little did I know back then what a tremendous and exciting journey laid 
ahead for me. 
 
From my very first day here at LL, no two days have been the same. The variety of 
tasks that we do every day and the different things we learn make it both challenging 
and interesting. Direct interaction with subscribers, some problem solving, keeping 
directories and records accurate and up-to-date are some of the tasks that we do 
on a day-to-day basis here at LL. 
 
For me, being an editor and a member of the publications team is not just a job, 
but a personal learning experience that has no match. I also get opportunities to 
be involved in exclusive projects like EMELD, learn a bit of programming and 
even build my first web pages. 
 
The Linguist List team is a dynamic group of individuals with very diverse backgrounds 
and skill sets. The Graduate Assistants like me are sponsored by your contributions, 
and we hope that you continue to extend your generosity so we can keep providing 
the linguistic community with our services. 
 
Sincerely, 
 
Svetlana Aksenova 
Linguist List Editor 

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $52,932. This money will go to help keep the 
List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our Fund Drive 2006 
LINGUIST List Cruise for some Fund Drive fun!

http://linguistlist.org/cruise.html 

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form.

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later.

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to donate by 
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The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as such can 
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organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These donations can be offset against 
your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). For more 
information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match any gift 
you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your contacting your human 
resources department and sending us a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns 
to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the 
value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment 
to check if your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

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We would like to thank all of the publishers and subscribers who
donated prizes for this year's Fund Drive games, puzzles, and 
competitions.

Publisher Prize Donors: 
Blackwell 
Cascadilla Press 
Continuum 
Estudios de Sociolingüística 
John Benjamins 
The Linguistic Association of Finland 
Multilingual Matters 
MultiLingual magazine 
PORTA LINGUARUM 
Speculative Grammarian 
Springer 
The Surrey Morphology Group 
 
Subscriber Prize Donors:
 
Paul G. Chapin 
Katherine Chen 
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira 
Dr. Gabriel Dorta 
Suzette Haden Elgin 
Gang Gu 
Elly van Gelderen 
Sara Laviosa 
Carol Myers-Scotton 
Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D 
Ana María Ortega and María Luisa Pérez 
Pernille Pennington 
Claus Pusch 
Michael Swan 
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The LINGUIST List Hall of Fame

ANGELS ($1000 and over)

Arnold Zwicky 

	
MAINSTAYS ($100 to $1000)
		
A. Henderson, S. Moran, G. Stamm 
Andrew Carnie 
Anita Fetzer 
Arienne M. Dwyer 
Aygul Fitton-Brown 
Bernadine W. Raiskums 
Billy Clark 
Cinzia Russi 
Cynthia Tia Linn Johnson 
D Terence Langendoen 
Danny Moates 
Edward Garrett 
elly van gelderen 
Ernest McCarus 
Geoff Nathan and Margaret Winters 
Heike Behrens 
Jeff Good 
John Lawler 
John Nerbonne 
Julie Auger 
Karen Davis 
Katy Carlson 
Keren Rice 
Laura Callahan 
Line Mikkelsen 
Michael Silverstein 
Monica Macaulay and Joe Salmons 
Neil Olsen 
Revue Romane 
Rochelle Lieber 
Shanley Allen 
Stefan Th. Gries 
Ute Römer 
Wendy Wilkins 
Zenzi Griffin 

- Plus 3 anonymous donors

SUPPORTERS ($50 to $100)

Andrea C. Schalley
Carol A. Klee
Catherine Anderson
Clyde Hankey
Deborah Anderson
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Frauke Zeller
Georgetown University - Graduate Student Linguistics Association
Henrik Jørgensen
Hortènsia Curell
Ingrid Piller
Irina Temnikova
Jila Ghomeshi
Job M. van Zuijlen
Judith Meinschaefer
Judy Reilly
Katherine Appleby
Kathleen M. Ward
Laura Downing
Lee Fullerton
Lisa Galvin
Maite Taboada
Mary Zdrojkowski
Marya Teutsch-Dwyer
Naomi Fox
Nicole Dehe
PAUL JUSTICE
Robert Hagiwara
Robert Williams
Scott McGinnis
Stanley Dubinsky
Veronika Koller
Wolfgang J. Meyer

- Plus 4 anonymous donors
	
DONORS (Up to $50)

Albert Ortmann 
Amina Mettouchi 
Bonny Sands 
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen 
Chris Sams 
Christopher Becker 
Dimitrios Ntelitheos 
Fay Wouk 
Heike Zinsmeister 
Janice Boynton 
Jean-Marc Dewaele 
John Beavers 
Josep Alba 
Judith Tonhauser 
Karl Reinhardt 
Kat Dziwirek 
Linda Apse 
Maher Awad 
Mayrene Bentley 
Miguel Ayerbe 
Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini 
Peter Slomanson 
Sandra W. Smith 
Sherril Condon 
Shlomo Izre'el 
Stefan Dollinger 
Susan D Fischer 
Theres Grueter 
V J Fedson 
Yosuke Sato 

- Plus 4 anonymous donors

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MAJOR SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
  
Blackwell Publishing 
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com 
Cambridge University Press 
http://us.cambridge.org 
Cascadilla Press 
http://www.cascadilla.com/ 
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd 
http://www.continuumbooks.com 
Edinburgh University Press 
http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ 
European Language Resources Association 
http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php 
Georgetown University Press 
http://www.press.georgetown.edu 
Hodder Arnold 
http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk 
John Benjamins 
http://www.benjamins.com/ 
http://www.benjamins.nl/ 
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 
http://www.erlbaum.com/ 
Lincom GmbH 
http://www.lincom.at 
www.lincom.at 
MIT Press 
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ 
Mouton de Gruyter 
http://www.mouton-publishers.com 
Multilingual Matters 
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 
Oxford University Press 
http://www.oup.com/us 
http://www.oup.co.uk 
Palgrave Macmillan 
http://www.palgrave.com 
Rodopi 
http://www.rodopi.nl/ 
Springer 
http://www.springeronline.com 


OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS
Anthropological Linguistics 
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 
CSLI Publications 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 
Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc.   Umass 
http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 
International Pragmatics Assoc. 
http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ 
Kingston Press Ltd 
http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 
http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke 
http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 
Pacific Linguistics 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 
SIL International 
http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 
St. Jerome Publishing Ltd. 
http://www.stjerome.co.uk 
Utrecht institute of Linguistics 
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

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INSTITUTIONS

Aptima, Inc. 
Arizona State University 
Bilkent University 
Birkbeck, University of London 
Bucknell University 
City University of Hong Kong 
Concordia University 
DarthDex 
Dictaphone 
Dublin City University 
European Bioinformatics Institute 
Gallaudet University 
Georgetown University 
H5 Technologies 
Harvard University Institute of English Language 
Language Analysis Systems, Inc. 
McGill University 
Michigan State University 
National Security Agency 
National Tsing Hua University 
North-West University 
Northeastern Illinois University 
Northwestern University 
OFAI - Austrian Research Inst. for AI 
Priberam Informática 
Rozetta 
Simon Fraser University 
Stanford University 
Swarthmore College 
SYSTRAN Software Inc. 
Szanca Solutions, Inc. 
Thomson Legal & Regulatory 
Tufts University 
UCLA 
United Arab Emirates University 
Universitaet Konstanz 
Universitaet Leipzig 
University of Alberta 
University of British Columbia 
University of Calgary 
University of Chicago 
University of Cincinnati 
University of Cyprus 
University of Edinburgh 
University of Florida 
University of Fribourg, Suisse 
University of Goettingen 
University of Hamburg 
University of Heidelberg 
University of Helsinki 
University of Illinois 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 
University of Leipzig 
University of Maryland 
University of Maryland, College Park 
University of Melbourne 
University of Michigan 
University of Oregon 
University of Pittsburgh 
University of Potsdam 
University of Reading 
University of Rochester 
University of Southampton 
University of Southern Denmark 
University of Texas at Austin 
University of Victoria 
Universität Tübingen 
Université de Neuchâtel 
Université du Québec à Montréal 
Voice Signal Technologies 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam